crazy things you hear about bikes

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I was over at my old apartment the other day and my neighbor saw my new bike. he asked if i had done anything to fix it up and i told him no. he actually told me this... "you should put one of those chips on it." i said, what chips? he told me that "they have a chip in Europe, because the bikes are so de-tuned here, that if i put one on my bike will do 232 mph stock with just the chip. he kept going on on and told me that the chip puts the bike up to over 150 hp. i just thought this was kinda funny.

P.S. I tried putting a chip on it, i was doubtful that a tostito would help it and it blew away... should have gone doritos nacho cheese!! this is what i was thinking the whole time he was talking. I tried to reason with him but he just wasn't having it, he was convinced. who tells these people these things?!?

share some of the stuff you have heard about bikes in general, i read the one about the Yamaha R2 earlier and that reminded me of this

I had a mechanic at a shop try to sell me a canada spec ignition box for a 600 I used to have. He said it would make it faster.
He made the mistake of letting me test it for a couple of days. I couldn't tell any difference. I figured if there was any gain at all it wasn't worth the asking price.

i did, but he said that i haven't found the right chip. he said he has a friend that did it

His friend is a convincing liar.

I hear in another post some one saying that their triumph was a V3. What a Moe-ron. The V would have to be 3D (in other words standard V with a third piston on the side going back to the same crank) to have three cylindars popping in a V configuration.

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[CENTER]Cut right into me
because I am made of scars
Yes, I am made of scars

This one had it coming - This one found a vein
This one was an accident, but never gave me pain
This one was my fathers and This one you can't see
This one had me scared to death,
[U]But I guess I should be glad I'm not dead[/U]

i installed one, it was great. But it's broken and I'm stuck in the past. Help! What do I do?

You had that problem to?

__________________
[CENTER]Cut right into me
because I am made of scars
Yes, I am made of scars

This one had it coming - This one found a vein
This one was an accident, but never gave me pain
This one was my fathers and This one you can't see
This one had me scared to death,
[U]But I guess I should be glad I'm not dead[/U]

i think the guy was just tring to say that if you put a pcm from europe or canada the bike will go a bit faster european bikes make around 5 to 10 more horse power than the ones sold in usa

but on a busa 10 more hp might get you 1 mph more on top end. it would take 300 EXTRA horses just to hit 232 like he told me. i wish i could do that for the $150 that he told me i could get it for. anybody else want one of those "miracle chips" for $150

Exactly, that is a W configuration for sure. V only has 2 pistons. Is that thing a photochop job or a real bike?

__________________
[CENTER]Cut right into me
because I am made of scars
Yes, I am made of scars

This one had it coming - This one found a vein
This one was an accident, but never gave me pain
This one was my fathers and This one you can't see
This one had me scared to death,
[U]But I guess I should be glad I'm not dead[/U]

Like an old propeller plane engine? Crazy, someone must have been bored!

__________________
[CENTER]Cut right into me
because I am made of scars
Yes, I am made of scars

This one had it coming - This one found a vein
This one was an accident, but never gave me pain
This one was my fathers and This one you can't see
This one had me scared to death,
[U]But I guess I should be glad I'm not dead[/U]